It’s been over 40 years since Gunnar Hansen wore the stitched-face disguise that terrorize his victims and audiences in THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. Now he’s putting it back on for the first time for photo ops at this month’s Mad Monster Party convention—and he’s not alone.

As any fright fan knows, the horror genre has a particularly salacious relationship with sexually explicit content. And while nudity so often goes side by side with decapitated heads and brutal bloodletting, there are also horror filmmakers throughout the years who made an art form out of the human body with an appreciation of our […]

Welcome to Shadowvision, a regular column in which Fangoria.com revisits modern horror films in black-and-white. The purpose is to analyze these films through a new lens, seeing if the classically informed viewing experience will give a new angle to familiar images. If you’d like to watch along at home, it’s simple: go into your TV […]

For fans of backwoods horror and monstrous slashers, there’s few names that can bring the pain as good as FRIDAY THE 13TH franchise stand-out Kane Hodder. And luckily, Hodder’s back in a big way in Steve Wolsh’s fright flick MUCK, which Anchor Bay is releasing in a matter of days. But today, you can be […]

FANGORIA’s favorite Canadian based screening series, Fright Night Theatre in the sinister Hamilton, Ontario (birth and death place of DARK SHADOWS legend Jonathan Frid!), presents a premiere-studded night of horrific and hilarious international horror short films this Saturday night at The Elaine Mae Theatre. Fright Theatre’s ongoing program offers a freaky and fun spotlight on […]

The alien-abduction thriller EJECTA just hit select theaters and VOD from IFC Films, and for an eerie taste of its conspiracy-minded mood, check out the main-title sequence you can see exclusively after the jump.

If it has not yet been apparent, Gerard Johnstone’s HOUSEBOUND was one of last year’s horror highlights, making 3 out of 4 FANGORIA Best of 2014 lists and earning 3 Chainsaw Award nominations. Now, with the Chainsaw voting winding down, the good folks at XLrator Media have offered more incentive for FANGORIA readers to put HOUSEBOUND […]

Nearly a year after Robert Rodriguez’s exhilarating and ambitious FROM DUSK TILL DAWN: THE SERIES premiered as the first original program on the director’s El Rey Network and eventually became binge-worthy on Netflix, production has started on the show’s 10-episode second season.

Indiecan Entertainment Canada just announced that Elijah Drenner’s celebrated documentaryTHAT GUY DICK MILLER will open on March 27th at Toronto’s Carlton Cinemas. The legendary Dick Miller, he of so many remarkable Roger Corman and Joe Dante classics, will be in attendance for select opening weekend screenings of the documentary, with special added screenings of classics LITTLE […]

[This review was originally published out of the Toronto International Film Festival in 2012. It is reposted below in light of the film’s theatrical and VOD release.] The word “homage” is a battered old mare when it comes to horror, with many a filmmaker confusing the term—which can most appropriately be applied to directors like […]

For this writer, one of 2014’s biggest end-of-year surprises was POKER NIGHT, which was an exceptionally engaging and clever horror flick that mixed the elements of a kidnapping thriller and dark comedy. Yet the film plays as well as it does for many reasons: POKER NIGHT not only has an exceptional cast, featuring Ron Perlman, […]

If you want to learn THE ABCs OF DEATH at home, the 26-part horror anthology will be hitting the disc scene just as school is letting out for the summer. Read on for the early details and a look at the cover art (where’s the baby?).

Real, palpable dread. In THE CONJURING, it is thick and ever present, and takes on many forms. It is a doll, it is a door. It is a hand clap, it is a spirit. It is malevolence in the air, it is the chill from a dark basement. It is accursed land. It is, eventually, […]